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mross462··on Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect tasks
Excellent PBS Nature episode on the subject too: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/fu...
mross462··on Plug – Native OS X client for Hype Machine
And while we're at it:

https://github.com/salomvary/soundcleod

and

https://kbhomes.github.io/radiant-player-mac/

mross462··on Show HN: Selfie Ticket
I disagree very strongly with the principle that services should be purchased with a photo. I will share a personal experience.

Traveling from Luxembourg to Brussels by train I made an arrangement for a room via AirBnB. It being the first time, they asked me for ID, and Credit Card information. I provided that. By the time I got off the train I received a response from AirBnB that my reservation had been canceled due to the fact that I hadn't provided a photo of myself for AirBnb. I believe the reason was because they wanted to know that I was a "real person", but the exact phrasing escapes me. This was not the case since I provided a photo of my driver's license as my ID. As a result I had to scramble to find a room in one of the most expensive cities in the world for this at the last moment (which was expensive).

I strongly disagree with the idea that "your face" should be integrated with a purchase. I strongly agree that your identity which includes but should not be limited to a subset of "your face" should.

If you are proceeding down this path I recommend having a user select a photo, rather than taking a self portrait.

Good Luck.

mross462··on Why Tipping Should (And May) Be Made Illegal
My argument for tipping: Make somebody who is working feel special if they are making you feel special.

Disclosures:

I worked in the service industry for years while also holding an engineering internship and getting a EE degree. There were many people who were not my regulars that made me feel special on days where there wasn't much else to.

mross462··on Make. Publish. Share. - 3 Minute Screencasts
I have an command line alias called screencast that starts this applescript on on my mac.

tell application "QuickTime Player" --activate new screen recording start document 1 delay 600 stop document 1 quit end tell

I then save it to a cloud service provider and set the privacy settings to whatever I want.

Are there any advantages to using this service versus the workflow that I mentioned above?

mross462··on Open Dylan 2013.1 released
No hot fire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9lg6HqJeY0
mross462··on Vagrant: Create and configure portable development environments
When performing searches for chef resources, it's best to use "opscode chef".
mross462··on Delusions that companies have about the cloud
So I occupied an elite circle in Hell when our services failed to deliver.

Revrend!!!

mross462··on Show HN: Collections, a fast multiple-account Google Docs client for Mac
Couldn't get past clicking next.